Rzgow - Rzgów

Rzgow - city in Polandin the middle of the Lodz voivodeship, in Eastern Lodz County, the seat of the Rzgów commune, lies on the river Ner.

Road sign, beginning of the village
Rzgow. Volunteer Fire Station
Rzgow. St. Stanisław, late Renaissance
Rzgow. St. Stanisław, late Renaissance

Characteristic

Geographical location: 51 ° 39′43 ″ N 19 ° 27′35 ″ E

In the years 1975-1998, the city administratively belonged to the then municipal voivodeship of Łódź. Europe a center for trade in clothing and textiles, Ptak Shopping Center.

The first records of Rzgow are from 1378. At that time, a village was established under German law.

In 1476, thanks to the efforts of the then owners of the city - the Krakow chapter, the king Kazimierz Jagiellończyk granted the village civic rights, it lost them in 1870, as a result of an administrative reform, during the period of its operation The Kingdom of Poland in the Russian partition. On January 1, 2006, it regained its municipal rights.

In the summer of 1918, there was a fire in Rzgow, which arose from a spark from a steam locomotive of a local tram LVEKDbecause then the trams to Tuszyn were not electrified yet, it only happened in 1927. This fire ended the period of dominant wooden buildings in the settlement and was rebuilt with the use of bricks (especially from a brickyard in nearby Kruszów), gaining a distinct urban character.

After the change of the socio-economic system in Poland in June 1989, a significant development of the village took place in the 1990s, based on the large clothing and textile marketplaces developing in it and in its vicinity. The changes were initiated by two local families: Antoni Ptak and Gałkiewicz.

Drive

By plane

The nearest airport is in Łódź in Lublinek, the airport. Władysław Reymont.

By rail

By car

The A1 motorway runs west of Rzgow, the national road No. 1 runs through the town longitudinally, and the national road No. 71 (about 53 km long, located in the Łódź Voivodeship, which is the northern, western and southern bypass of Łódź) runs through the town.

By bus

By ship

Communication

The ceremony of opening the Lodz Narrow-Gauge Electric Accession Railways (ŁWEKD) Ruda Pabianicka-Rzgów-Tuszyn line (April 18, 1916)

In the years 1916–1978 Rzgów was connected by a suburban electric tram from By boat and Tuszyn. In the years 1916–1948 the line was operated by Łódź Narrow-Gauge Electric Access Railways and had the status of an access railway at the discretion of the Ministry of Communications. Initially, the locomotives pulled tram cars, i.e. it was a steam traction, which in 1927 was changed to electric traction. Before and after the war, the tram was marked with the name of the destination stop, i.e. Tuszyn. From 1956, the line was numbered 42, which was maintained until its decommissioning in 1978.

On June 17, 1978, due to a thorough reconstruction of the Łódź - Piotrków Trybunalski road, the Rzgów - Tuszyn section was liquidated, and on June 1, 1993, the tram line was completely closed.

The city is within reach of the city's bus lines operated by MPK Łódź and buses running to the Shopping Center as well MZK Pabianice (line T) and also PKS Łódź buses (lines Tuszyn-Łódź and Czyżeminek-Łódź).

Worth seeing

The only building entered in the register of monuments: parish church of St. Stanislaus (historic, register number: 123-VII-1 of August 23, 1946 and A / 155/189 of August 29, 1967), late Renaissance, erected around 1630, brick, single-nave, with an octagonal tower, gables decorated with attics. Baroque interior fittings.

Nearest neighborhood

Łódź

Pabianice

Tuszyn

Łaznowska Wola

work

Science

Shopping

Gastronomy

Festivals, parties

Accommodation

contact

Security

Tourist information

Trip

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